Bug 122476 - SMP kernel hangs upon resetting Symbios (sym53c8xx) SCSI bus
Summary: SMP kernel hangs upon resetting Symbios (sym53c8xx) SCSI bus
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 2
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-05-04 22:50 UTC by David Paschal
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:05 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-04-16 05:33:50 UTC
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Description David Paschal 2004-05-04 22:50:19 UTC
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Description of problem:
(This is FC2 test3.)

System is an HP Kayak XU7/550X containing 2 Pentium III Xeon 550MHz
CPUs.  There is an Adaptec AIC-7880 on the motherboard for the two
(boot) drives, and a PCI combo-card with a Symbios 53C875JE
(sym53c8xx) SCSI chip (with nothing attached to it) and an AMD
PCnet-FAST (pcnet32) 10/100 ethernet interface (eth0).

Regardless of whether I boot the SMP or UP kernel, I get the following
(normal) messages during bootup:

Loading scsi_mod.ko module
SCSI subsystem initialized
Loading sd_mod.ko module
Loading sym53c8xx.ko module
sym0: <875> rev 0x26 at pci 0000:03:04.0 irq 15
sym0: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking
sym0: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM
sym0: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware.
sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
scsi0 : sym-2.1.18j

If I boot the SMP kernel, I next get the following messages (with
several-second delays between the "started" and "timed-out" messages),
and then the boot hangs (Ctrl-Alt-Delete reboots, so the keyboard
itself isn't dead):

sym0:0:0: ABORT operation started.
sym0:0:0: ABORT operation timed-out.
sym0:0:0: DEVICE RESET operation started.
sym0:0:0: DEVICE RESET operation timed-out.
sym0:0:0: BUS RESET operation started.
sym0:0:0: BUS RESET operation timed-out.
sym0:0:0: HOST RESET operation started.
sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.

If on the other hand I boot the UP kernel (or the SMP kernel with the
"nosmp" option), I don't see the above ABORT/RESET messages, and
instead bootup continues normally, including the following messages:

Loading aic7xxx.ko module
ahc_pci:0:8:0: Illegal cable configuration!!. Only two connectors on
the adapter may be used at a time!
scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
        <Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI adapter>
        aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs

(scsi1:A:0): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit)
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST39102LW         Rev: 8320
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi1:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 4
SCSI device sda: 17783240 512-byte hdwr sectors (9105 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
(scsi1:A:1): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit)
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST39102LW         Rev: 8320
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi1:A:1:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 4
SCSI device sdb: 17783240 512-byte hdwr sectors (9105 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
 sdb: sdb1
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0

(Regarding the "Illegal cable configuration" error message: I'm not
sure why that is; there's only one cable coming out of the motherboard
to the drives, with a terminator (it appears) on the end; when I get a
chance I'll have to check the drives' jumper settings; in any case the
drives seem to work fine.)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.5-1.327

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See above.

Actual Results:  See above.

Expected Results:  See above.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2004-12-08 06:30:38 UTC
fixed in 2.6.9 update ?

Comment 2 Douglas E. Warner 2005-01-08 17:05:18 UTC
I guess this is just a 'me too' post;  I'm currently using FC3 with
the following kernels from updates:

kernel-2.6.9-1.724_FC3
kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.724_FC3

Same problem as above; I can boot into the uniprocessor kernel fine,
but booting into the SMP kernel results in the same bus resets as above.

Comment 3 Parag Kadam 2005-03-31 02:31:00 UTC
I am new to linux and installed Fedora FC3 on HP Kayak Dual PIII 550Mhz. I
continue to get the problems mentioned in the original post, though it is
mentioned that the problem was identified with FC2 and it was fixed.

If changing the kernel is a workaround/solution, then could anyone guide me to
install the new version installation process ?



Comment 4 Parag Kadam 2005-03-31 12:27:43 UTC
I tried installing a new kernel (2.6.11) using the rpm. I issued the command
rpm -Fvh kernel-2.6.11.....
It did give an error stat /dev/shm but completing the rpm installation.


after rebooting the system continues to hang.


Comment 5 Dave Jones 2005-04-16 05:33:50 UTC
Fedora Core 2 has now reached end of life, and no further updates will be
provided by Red Hat.  The Fedora legacy project will be producing further kernel
updates for security problems only.

If this bug has not been fixed in the latest Fedora Core 2 update kernel, please
try to reproduce it under Fedora Core 3, and reopen if necessary, changing the
product version accordingly.

Thank you.



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